Making the European Parliament the Guarantor of the Independence of European Citizens
SPECIAL COVERAGE 2019 European Elections - lessons to be learnt @ Multimedia Centre EP. Centre Multimedia @ | 3nd July, election of the new President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli in Brussels. MAKING THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT THE GUARANTOR OF THE INDEPENDENCE OF EUROPEAN CITIZENS by David Maria Sassoli We are in the midst of historic changes: youth unemployment, migration, climate change, the digital revolution, new world balances, which in order to be tackled need new ideas and the courage to know how to combine great wisdom and maximum audacity. But we also need the institutions to take on these challenges, amongst which is the European Parliament. The new President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli argues that in the parliamentary term that is beginning now, the procedures need to be strengthened to make the Parliament the leading player in a full European democracy. Summer-Autumn 2019 - The Progressive Post !12 9 We need to recover the spirit of Ventotene We often think of the world we live in, of the people prospects, relaunch sustainable and the pioneering impulse of the Founding freedoms we enjoy. But let's say it to our- investments and strengthen the process Fathers, who were able to put aside the selves, given that others in the East or West, of convergence between our regions and hostilities of war, and to put an end to the or in the South, find it hard to recognise, that territories. failures of nationalism, giving us a project so many things make us different – not bet- capable of combining peace, democracy, ter, simply different – and that we Europeans The digital revolution is profoundly chang- rights, development and equality.
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